I'm not sure if it was this paper or the other one in Ft. Wayne, but the interview process was pretty involved. They wanted me to take an editing test, but it had to be administered by a local (to me) journalism professor. So they wanted me to go to a local college and ask a professor to, on his own time and without knowing me or the publication, give me this test.

That's about as far as I got. I wasn't that interested. I guess it's a good way to weed people out.

I'm not sure if it was this paper or the other one in Ft. Wayne, but the interview process was pretty involved. They wanted me to take an editing test, but it had to be administered by a local (to me) journalism professor. So they wanted me to go to a local college and ask a professor to, on his own time and without knowing me or the publication, give me this test.

That's about as far as I got. I wasn't that interested. I guess it's a good way to weed people out.

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Sounds like that paper. I knew a couple of news-side people there who would not have passed a test to find their own butt with their hands.

I can speak to this job a little bit. The ASE used to cover Notre Dame as well -- not sure if he is the one who is leaving. The upper management has been there a long, long time and to my knowledge there is still a JOA with the smaller paper in town, one of the most stable in the industry if my memory serves right.

There are opportunities to do some pretty interesting things there still and the paper at least tries to occasionally do something different here and there, depending on the writer. The staff is also getting smaller than it was 10 years ago (not a surprise) so there's probably a better chance for writing these days.

Not sure what is causing this opening, but one of the last people to leave the sports section of the paper covers Notre Dame for the Chicago Sun-Times and another is now at ESPN covering the NFL. So there is some pedigree for the right person to move up from there. As a section, they've won a handful of writing APSEs over the past decade.